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Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. [6] It is located 13 miles (21 km) due west of West Seattle and is connected to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries run to Southworth. It is named after Port Orchard, the strait that separates Bainbridge Island from the Kitsap ...
State Route 16 (SR 16) is a 27.16-mile-long (43.71 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, connecting Pierce and Kitsap counties. The highway, signed as east–west, begins at an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) in Tacoma and travels through the city as a freeway towards the Tacoma Narrows.
Olalla being a port of commerce flourished as the logging, farming and boat building were king. Olalla was served by many steamships , including the Virginia V which is the last operational example of a Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet steamer.
Automobiles were required to drive 107 miles (172 km) through Olympia to reach Tacoma; the Washington Navigation Company later launched a Point Defiance–Gig Harbor ferry service in 1927 that could carry 80 vehicles. [7] [9] The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was completed in July 1940 to replace the ferry crossing, but collapsed a few months ...
SR 509 traveling across the Thea Foss Waterway on the cable-stayed 21st Street Bridge within Tacoma, connecting downtown to the Port of Tacoma.. SR 509 begins as South 21st Street at a single-point urban interchange with I-705 in downtown Tacoma in Pierce County, [3] providing access to the Tacoma campus of the University of Washington and the Tacoma Link light rail line on Pacific Avenue.
Kitsap County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, its population was 275,611. [1] Its county seat is Port Orchard; [2] its largest city is Bremerton.
The highway re-enters Tacoma at Point Defiance Park and passes the Science and Math Institute before traveling onto the Point Defiance–Tahlequah Ferry. [ 4 ] The ferry, operated by Washington State Ferries (WSF), is on a 1.7-mile-long (2.7 km) route and is served by the Kwa-di Tabil class MV Chetzemoka traveling at a speed of 15 knots (17 mph ...
[42] [43] The new highway cost $3 million (equivalent to $42.1 million in 2023 dollars) [40] to construct and pave and reduced the distance to Tacoma by 9.3 miles (15.0 km). [ 44 ] [ 45 ] US 99 was originally routed north from Downtown Seattle on 4th Avenue, Westlake Avenue , 7th Avenue, and Dexter Avenue, crossing the Lake Washington Ship ...